27 Dramatic Published Plays for Theatre School

27 Dramatic Published Plays for Theatre School helps drama teachers and acting students find contemporary plays for study practice.

Monologue Blogger is a performing arts resource that produces original published plays for independent artists searching for new and original performance material.

Where can I find published plays for theatre school?

We invite you to cruise through some of our short play scripts below where you will find material for actors ages 18 and above.

Many of the play scripts shared here are thought-provoking and edgy, revolving around subject matter that deals with abandonment, love, addiction, responsibility, emotional support, choosing a career path, escape and more.

Practice Monologues for Theatre School

One-Way Conversation

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Bella
• Age Range: Teens
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Bella wishes her mother wouldn’t come down on her over things that aren’t such a big deal, and instead hopes her mother will pay more attention to what she believes matters more.
• Monologue Snippet: “First, you come at me and complain about all the things you think I’m not doing and you do this to get me angry because you think by getting me angry it’s going to somehow make me work harder for what I want in my life and you’re wrong.” ~Bella
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Dust In Our Eyes

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Dean
• Age Range: Teens
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Dean talks about taking risks in life in order to follow one’s purpose and live with your onward individual meaning.
• Monologue Snippet: “I wanna find something I can do in my life that will make me so damn happy I won’t have to be miserable one day while going to work” ~Dean
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To The Wolves

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Sally
• Age Range: 20’s
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Sally talks about the crushing debt and difficulty she has keeping up with all her bills.
• Monologue Snippet: “Will you lend me the lousy five-hundred dollars or do I have to beg and feel like more of a failure than I already am?” ~Sally
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Checking In

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rob
• Age Range: 20’s
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Rob finds his real father not to make amends but to lash out at him for all the years he’s been ignored.
• Monologue Snippet: “Thank you for showing me how NOT to be in my life. Thank you for giving me the example I needed to make an honest living, to at least treat people with a bit of dignity, and knowing how to be aware of my own integrity.” ~Rob
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For All We’ve Got

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Luna
• Age Range: Teens
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Luna is reaching out to her friend, trying to figure out how they can make what she calls a ‘real’ life for themselves.
• Monologue Snippet: “I don’t wanna be stuck here, in all this mess, just watchin’ days go like they’ve meant nothin’. Like life means nothin’, but it has to, it has to mean somethin’ or be for a reason.” ~Luna
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You Were Never There

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Faye
• Age Range: Teens
• Duration: 1-2 -minute monologue
• Description: Faye’s dad shows up at her job trying to develop a better relationship with her.
• Monologue Snippet: “Making me feel like I’m supposed to pretend the past never existed. I can’t start that way! I can’t act like that!” ~Faye
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Waking Hours

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Willis
• Age Range: 20′-50’s’s
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Willis recounts the story to his girlfriend about witnessing two birds on two different days, fly into a high-rise building.
• Monologue Snippet: “I mean really, really sensitive. You’d start crying and I just couldn’t cope with that.” ~Willis
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More Ways Than One

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Porterfield
• Age Range: Teens
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Porterfield is at it again, getting into trouble at school and although he is on the verge of being expelled, his principal Mr Agnon gives him an opportunity that can change his life forever.
• Monologue Snippet: “I don’t want to bother you over every little thing that happens to me because then I think you will get angry at me as if it’s my fault” ~Porterfield
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Fallen Money

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Ruby
• Age Range: Teens
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Ruby has been secretly contemplating freedom and thinks she has found it by way of Paul
• Monologue Snippet: “I don’t think I could do this on my own. That’s the truth; maybe you can, maybe you’re the stronger one out of us all, but we could help each other.” ~Ruby
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Wonderland

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Lexi
• Age Range: 30-50’s
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Lexi involves herself with a friend in order to help guide her into making better life decisions.
• Monologue Snippet: “You stay with me..we’ll figure things out..maybe you could go to school or, or find some passion or, a career, a real career and you can build a whole new world for yourself.” ~Lexi
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Delivery

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Kelly
• Age Range: Teens
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Kelly confesses to her friend about an attempted robbery she made on them.
• Monologue Snippet: “So, I sort of made up this half true story; I mean, it’s real, but…it has lies in it, so you could feel bad for me, and it’s worked.” ~Kelly
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The Last Time

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Wendy
• Age Range: 20’s
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Wendy is asked for money from the father she never sees because he is involved in a life or death situation.  This dark moment reveals a painful past between this father and daughter that may or may not shift when Wendy’s boyfriend Roger gets involved.
• Monologue Snippet: “Being divorced from mom and trying to grow your business, but I can’t help but wonder how much you ever truly loved me to just leave like you did. (beat) I was never a focal point in your life, was I?” ~Wendy
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Cartwheel Leaf

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Riza
• Age Range: Teens
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Riza talks about how her boyfriend’s tattoo has changed her perspective in relation to her mother.
• Monologue Snippet: “My head was pounding, and I was getting so worked up that I felt the blood rise to my neck. I was losing my patience, but then I remembered Leon’s tattoo, and I instantly calmed down.” ~Riza
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Midnight Sighs

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Dom
• Age Range: 20-30’s
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Dom is shocked and disoriented over the fact that the woman he dreams about each day went off with another man to some Caribbean island.
• Monologue Snippet: “She works day in day out in this deadbeat job, having to smile at these washouts who’ve nothing better to do than fall in love with her and…try to..make her…smile.” ~Dom
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Treat Me Nice

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Corinne
• Age Range: 20’s
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Corinne doesn’t get along with her mother.  They live together.  Just the two of them.  They are masters at pushing one another’s buttons.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’m not, you know, some worker that you’ve hired to cook and clean.  I am your daughter.  I don’t feel like I’m your daughter, but I am, I guess.” ~Corinne
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Waiting in the Wings

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Wendy
• Age Range: 20-30’s
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Wendy tries to justify the killing of her boss.
• Monologue Snippet: “I wasn’t up for anymore of his disgusting games. I couldn’t bare not one more second of it” ~Wendy
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The Accusal

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Elly
• Age Range: 20’s
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Elly is being wrongfully accused of killing Ned because he ate her porridge.
• Monologue Snippet: “Even so, I should not be accused of doing something I had never intended on doing. I made a meal. Porridge!” ~Elly
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Nothing Matters

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Amber
• Age Range: Teens
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: As awkward as Amber can be, she communicates with honesty and truth.
• Monologue Snippet: “You don’t get your closest companions to listen to you in the same way. It’s more interesting when you don’t know someone, or so we think. We take each other’s words and time for granted.” ~Amber
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The Face of a Great Actress

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Amber
• Age Range: 20-30’s
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Amber isn’t happy with all the attention her husband Cody gives to their daughter and fears it’s spoiling her.
• Monologue Snippet: “Because you spoil her rotten. She has more stuffed dolls than I’ve ever seen. We could open up a toy store at this point Cody. ” ~Amber
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See Me

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Alina
• Age Range: Teens
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Alina is saddened by the fact that no drama school is willing to accept her.
• Monologue Snippet: “I needed it to happen, would’ve kept me out of trouble for a while, an’ at least then I’d be given some kinda guidance, you know?” ~Alina
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Recovery Room

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Ola
• Age Range: 20’s
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Ola has been held captive for years.
• Monologue Snippet: “It fades. Today will fade. Tomorrow will too. Everything almost does…we all fade away into mist and ash and dung.” ~Ola
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There He Is

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Pete
• Age Range: 20
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Pete realizes he’s bit more than he can chew with his co-worker Andrew.
• Monologue Snippet: “My co-worker is the most annoying guy in the world.  I wish to God I wasn’t so nice to him when I first started working at my new job.” ~Pete
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The Way Home

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jasmine
• Age Range: Teens
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Jasmine tries to convince her parents that she is ready to move out and live on her own.
• Monologue Snippet: “I just, I need my freedom. I need time, time to think and be in my own thoughts with things, I want to be my own person, Mom.” ~Jasmine
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Raison d’être

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Marlo
• Age Range: 20’s
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Marlo makes a major realization about himself and how he chooses to live out the rest of his life.
• Monologue Snippet: “Makes it rain on his yacht with all his cronies. Makes complete sense for a bug to be happier than me, don’t you think?” ~Marlo
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The Ghosts of Our Ancestors

• Genre: Drama / Period Drama
• Character: Tiara
• Age Range: 20’s
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Tiara tries to concoct a plan with her uncle in order to save their family’s estate.
• Monologue Snippet: “He is honest and decent and you shouldn’t bad mouth him the way that you do. If he has an ill opinion of you than so be it, but what do you care about what he thinks regardless.” ~Tiara
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Behind The Eight Ball

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Helena
• Age Range: Teens
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Helena feels as though her life can never get ahead of what she imagines it being.
• Monologue Snippet: “I always feel like I’m behind the eight ball, trying to keep up with you and all the others and I’m on my own…working my stupid job, going to school, in debt, it’s all on me and some days I feel buried alive.” ~Helena
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Negative Energy

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rose
• Age Range: 20’s
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Gina asks her roommate Rose if her sister Meagan can live with them temporarily things get heated, especially when Meagan shows up at their front door.   
• Monologue Snippet: “I’m exhausted and have no strength to do anything for myself that pleases me. I have to work up the positive energy inside myself to get out of whatever crappy state of mind you put me in to begin with. I don’t want to do this anymore.” ~Rose
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